INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The man tries to tie the elderly woman with a rope which she resists.Ahmedabad: An elderly woman was allegedly
thrashed and dragged out of her house by her daughter and son- in-law in Gujarat's Chhotaudepur district, police said yesterday.A purported
video clip of the incident, which took place in Velpur village under Sankheda taluka, around 200km from Ahmedabad, surfaced on social media
platforms, prompting the police to register an offence.In the video, a man and a woman are seen beating a frail old woman who is lying on
The man tries to tie the elderly woman with a rope which she resists
Upon this, the woman's daughter drags her and the victim's son-in-law hauls her and throws her out of the hut.The video was recorded on
Sunday, said the Superintendent of Police in-charge of Chhotaudepur, Dharmendra Sharma."We sent a police team to Velpur village to probe the
incident after the video surfaced
The persons seen beating up the woman in the video are her daughter and son-in-law," he said."The accused claimed the woman is mentally
They said they were trying to stop her after she attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon," Mr Sharma said.An FIR was registered against the
duo at the Sankheda police station under IPC section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and further investigation was on, he added.
